Improved fertilizer



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JACOB ALTHOUSE, OF CROSS ROADSPENNSYLVANl-A, ASSIGNOR TO-HIM SELF AND JOSEPH V. WINEMILLER.

Letters Patent No, 77,860, dated May 1868.

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TO ALL wnom 11 MAY CONCERN; I I Be it known that: I, JAcoB ALTnousmof-Cross Roads, York county, Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented an Improved Lime Phosphate or Fertilizer; and I do hereby declare the followillg'desoription and accompany ing-drawingsare.suflicient to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it most neatly apertsins to make and use my said invention orim provements without further inyention or experiment.

The nature of my invention and improvements consist in m'akingphosphate of lime, by mixing the several ingredients hereinafter named, by the process hereinafter described. d

To make my improved lime phosphate or fertiliser, ,I put seven hundred pounds of lime that is air -slaked, or slaked with just suficient' water to leave it dry and pulv ernlent or powder. Themadd one hundred and eighty pounds. of hreken benes, and one hundred pounds of woodashes, and mix the mass well together by stirring, and'put the whole into a box or vat, and cover pith from two to three inches of ground plasterg'end add three hundred and twenty pounds of urine, more or less, portions of which may be poured on dnily, and the composition allowed to remain until the bones are dissolved, which is usually done in from eight to twelve weeks. I .then spread four hundred pounds of wheat bran on the barn-floor, or other platform, and put the composition before. described upon it, and mix the whole thoroughly together,"and let it remain twenty-four hours. Then add three'hundred'pounds of pulverized hen-dung, and mix it uniformly through the mass of composition, when it isready for use p I The hen-dung may be readily pulverized in a common threshing-machine; and, if'.the composition is to be drilled with grain or smell seed, it can also he pulverized by passing it through a threshing-machine. It is best to inuke this composition so that it will he ready about the time you wish to use it, or delay adding the bran and hen-dung untilyou wish to use it. V

' For wheat, corn,--and rye, I use from twoto four hundred pounds to the acre -for potatoes, from four to six hundred pounds to theacre, accordingto the quality and condition of the land. The proportions of the" several ingredients named. may be varied considerably, without materially afl'eoting the result.

' I claim the above-described composition or fertiliser, compounded in about the proportions specified, for" the purpose of mannring land; I

I also claim the process described of mixing and preparing said composition or Tertilizer, substantially as described. 7

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Witnesses:

- J. DENNIS, Jr., WmDnmus. 

